globebikes

I love to provide music for group rides. One of the benefits of having a front basket is the ability to carry a portable sound system that can easily connect to an iPod. My friend Mike S. built this portable sound system out of PVC pipe, cooking pot lid, amplifier, speakers, and rechargeable batteries.As you can tell by the video, I can turn up the volume fairly high....

I just picked up my Globe Live 3 from Mike's Bikes. It was great to see the other Live models in the store. I didn't notice any Hauls displayed but that's because one of the bike shop employees said the Haul already sold. I think these Globe bicycles will sell quickly.Below are initial photos of the bicycle....

Sometimes, scratch that, all of the time I long for a garage. I have already been issued the edict from my loving wife – three bikes is simply too many for a 500 square foot apartment in Manhattan. The downside of getting a free bike is that I have to get rid of one of my other bikes....

If you put your left foot on the left pedal first--just as one advances the left foot first in walking--you can get off to a pretty graceful start, especially after coming to a stop at an intersection. I never thought about this before when riding a bike so I thought I'd share.The "graceful start" seems nearly impossible to achieve on an incline....

My friend Celia tries the low rider at the Tour de Fat, while Cindy tries the big wheel that's perfectly sized for her.

I'm not the biggest coffee drinker by all means but I always seem to find my way to a coffee shop. Part of the reason might be because I get a fifty dollar allowance from work every month at Starbucks. The other part is probably because there is almost always outdoor seating where I can sit, relax, and enjoy the Southern California weather with some friends in between riding....

So how did this all happen? How did I win a free bike from Globe and become one of their team of bloggers? I first found out about Globe Bikes on the Bikes for the Rest of Us blog.  I went from there to the Globe bikes website and sat drooling over the different models of bikes.  I looked at every model, but became most interested in the Live and Haul...

Tomorrow I am off to India, on a much needed holiday. To be honest I cannot wait to get away from what has been a manic 6 months. I am going to be travelling around Kerala and Goa with two of my friends, Katy and Jessie. It's a 10 day trip, so I'll be back in London at the end of the month....

One of the many wonderful benefits of living in San Francisco is that it's one of the cities that New Belgium's Tour de Fat visits.Every year the Tour de Fat organizers bring many wonderful bicycles for participants to try out. Riding these crazy bicycles, like the shoe wheel bicycle or the many-wheels bicycle, is one of the highlights of Tour de Fat.I love the Ten Commandments of the Tour de Fat,...

Although I don’t mind scratching up my bike in the normal course of using it, I do want to avoid battering the frame over and over when locking it up. Most of the time I lock it to vertical poles and the top tube rests against the pole. To protect against abuse I like to wrap the top tube with an old inner tube....

Like, I said, my mom, my sister, the Yorkshire terrier, and I went riding. what I didn't say is that I need a Courtnee-proof camera. Hopefully, I'll get a camera that takes good pictures despite me for Xmas. (They do make those now, don't they?)Also, in spite of a little test run on Betty, my mom's ride didn't get off to a very smooth start....

Thanks to Tan Lam and Garrett Chow over at Globe Bikes for putting in work to get us a Med Globe Roll 1 as the grand prize for our “It’s a WRAP” Alleycat series and GRAND OPENING event. ...

This is my friend and bike advocate Janel, who is dressed tweed-style for a film featuring her performance group The Bay Area Derailleurs. She usually doesn't wear a fake mustache.San Francisco Tweed is an increasingly popular bike ride for those who prefer a more casual, sophisticated, and well-mannered ride through the city.

Overheard: "I'd like to order two Triassic era pizzas with some extra breadsticks."

The weekend started on Friday the 13th with a hike up Diamond head crater, a short bike ride around the end of Waikiki, and another bike ride later that afternoon with fellow "fixators." Saturday was a day off, and topped off Sunday with a "solo mish" (solo mission) through waikiki with my first flat (with the bike) on the way back....

The older I get, the less I feel I know. I encountered another example of this recently when perusing the blog of Globe Experience Project recipient Courtnee. Just after getting her new bike she wrote the following: When I reached school, I was presented with another problem. The bike rack looked positively Lilliputian....

After reading this post and the ensuing comment about the glories of nighttime riding, I've been able to think of nothing else--even though I am "working" and should be plugging away at my case load.  I know that when I do get my bike, I am going to need to do some night riding because 1....

Rain usually tends to put a damper on the adventurous spirit of most "sane" people. Then there are the few here in the Pacific Northwest who actually await the rainy season. These people are the Cyclocross riders and they are a different breed, all together. This fall, hundreds of riders descended upon Portland for the Single Speed Cyclocross World Championships (SSCSWC09)....